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Before leaving S.A., Jennifer Broome posed for a cover story for former Express-News magazine Trends.

Before leaving S.A., Jennifer Broome posed for a cover story for former Express-News magazine Trends.

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WOAI-TV ex Broome shocked by graphic news slip

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S.A. viewers of video — showing a Twitter pic of a penis that accidentally made it on to a Denver newscast — may have recognized a familiar face amid the stunned and embarrassed visages of the KDVR morning team: former WOAI-TV meteorologist Jennifer Broome.

In case you haven’t seen the clip that wild-fired across the Internet — and even to some TV shows — on Tuesday and Wednesday, a recap: It happened on “Good Day,” the morning show on the Fox station in Denver (Channel 31), where Broome now toils as morning meteorologist.

See the edited YouTube version here:

As part of news coverage of the TV helicopter crash in Seattle, a camera was pointed to a computer screen — and Twitter images of the tragic event.

As anchorman Kirk Yuhnke pointed out, the first shot was that of smoke from the crash with Seattle’s iconic Space Needle in the background. But then other photos unrelated to the crash started popping up: “Edward Scissorhands,” a food photo and . . . the graphic shot of the male body part.

“We’ll just ignore that,” the anchor said with impressive stoicism, while the others sitting with him, including weathercaster Broome on the far right, winced and covered their mouths in horror.

“It was a little bit of shock on the air,” Broome told me in a phone chat Thursday morning. Still, she was surprised, she said, when the clip went viral so fast.

Most people seemed to get the bigger kick out of the faces of the news team afterward, she said, including her own astonished expression.

She said the incident stemmed from the control room and not the computer pad that Yuhnke was holding. “It was totally an accident. Things happen when you’re on live TV,” Broome said, adding no one was fired at KDVR as a result but “new procedures” have been implemented.

”You’ve got to take it in stride, you have to laugh at yourself,” she said of her widely-exposed reaction.

After the broadcast, as you’d expect, the Fox31 KDVR Facebook page was full of jokes and puns relating to the incident.

Also posted on the KDVR page is an apologetic statement from the Fox affiliate: “While reporting breaking news about the crash of the KOMO-TV helicopter in Seattle, Fox 31 Denver accidentally broadcast an offensive photo while scrolling live through a Twitter feed of pictures from the crash scene.

“The photo was mistakenly broadcast by our control room. It did not come from the tablet many viewers saw being used by one of our anchors.

“We apologize for the inadvertent broadcast of the image and we are taking immediate steps to prevent such an accident from happening again.”

Of course, it could happen again, on a whole slew of stations all over the country that constantly supplement their news reports with social media images. Maybe we’ll all learn a lesson from this and take more care when it comes to using stuff from Twitter, Facebook and the like.